critical skill

collocation in English

meaningsofcriticalandskill

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critical
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
saying that someone or something is bad ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofcriticalandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The teacher requires linguistic awareness as much ascriticalskill.
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Thiscriticalskillhas become even more important in the current global business environment where cross-functional teams have become the norm.
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Onecriticalskilllearned is how to identify a parachute malfunction and deal with it.
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Special features of the workbook include awarenessraising reading tasks and guided exercises to help develop and practise the critical skills required to appraise papers independently.
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Students not only learn aspects of the language and literary content, but also develop crucial critical skills.
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Few women in the group had the critical skills and confidence needed to overcome the social norms that impede participation.
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The reader also survives, fascinated and charmed by a delicacy of touch well combined with linguistic and critical skills.
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The improvement of critical skills does not have to be painful; it can be great fun.
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The writing of reports also serves to develop critical skills that are essential to any student interested in pedagogy at various levels.
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She makes an excellent case for the centrality of griots and smiths based on their critical skills and knowledge and the relatively greater amount of source material on them.
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Clearly, if such conventions and routines need to be re-thought and adapted for the medium of music technology, students need to develop the practical and critical skills for so doing.
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They are an essential ingredient in a civilised and well-balanced society and, rigorously taught, they develop analytical and critical skills much valued by employers.
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Rigorously taught, such courses develop analytical and critical skills of broad vocational relevance.
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In the approach to, or during operations, aircrew training is refocused to reinforce critical skills.
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Sports like running, jumping, throwing spears, and unbalancing people (i.e. wrestling) were all critical skills for combat.
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They aim to help students develop critical skills necessary to compete and succeed in the global market.
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Members of other companies accompanied the battalion to provide needed critical skills.
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The legal, social and economic situation of the workers improved as more and more workers with critical skills were needed.
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A craft union with critical skills may be able to shut down an entire industry.
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